March 2010

Top Ten {Tuesday}: How To Make Your Readers Happy

March 23, 2010 blogging

Thank you so much for all the great response to How To Make A Blogger Happy last week! This week is Part 2: Top Ten Ways To Make Your READERS Happy! 1. Full Feeds This is for those readers that read your blog in a feedreader. You can set up your blog to show FULL [...]

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Why I’m Not Going To Post Today

March 22, 2010 party

Alternate Title: Easter Comes Early Around These Here Parts Alternate Alternate Title: Our (Almost) Annual Spring Party Is Today!! Alternate Alternate Alternate Title: My Kids LOVE Posing For Pictures. :: :: ::

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My New Favorite

March 20, 2010 linky love

Photo :: :: :: Lydia at Lowe’s Build and Grow Workshop last Saturday (if you followed me on twitter, you would have already seen this.) Food Blog :: :: :: The Local Cook {a blog in the vein of Julie and Julia, a blogger cooks through the book Simply In Season} Puppet :: :: :: [...]

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Do Hard Things: Start Here

March 19, 2010 me

A few months ago I heard about a blog called The Rebelution by two teen brothers, Alex and Brett Harris. They had been encouraged by their dad to read a stack of books one summer. The blog is the result of those books. They were both challenged to be a part of (which soon turned [...]

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Asa’s Favorite Book

March 18, 2010 books

I picked this Sesame Street sign language book at the thrift store when Lydia was little. I love it because it goes through the alphabet and shows signs for every letter and words to go with it. Lydia has read it several times. Now it is Asa’s favorite. He looks at every picture and talks [...]

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Happy St. Wednesday To You!

March 17, 2010 lost

I got inspired by Leigh’s Saint Patrick’s Day post today and made green Rice KRispie treats with the kids. And that is what made my Lost recap get posted at 2:25pm. Well, that and the fact that Sawyer’s RECON episode made me…I don’t know—LOST. Anyway, if you would like to talk about last night’s episode [...]

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Top Ten {Tuesday}: How To Make A Blogger Happy

March 16, 2010 blogging

The other week I had this great idea that I would learn how to a screencast and do a “welcome to my blog” screencast to show new visitors what my blog was about and maybe even show newbies how blogs in general work. Wouldn’t that be fun? At this exact same time I read a [...]

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